Quotes of: Guilty-pleasure Keyword

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Robert Littell

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Emily Blunt

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Sienna Miller

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

Andrea Bocelli

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Jane Siberry

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Alex Cox

For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.

Alain Ducasse

My pleasure is only superficial: in oily droplets it lies on my skin without being absorbed.

Anna Jae

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Russell Baker

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

Life

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Life

Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

Love